Since Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) joined the board at Apple this week, rumors & speculation have been rampant on the what the next big news will be. Dan Farber over at ZDNet builds on John Dvorak's postulations in his latest blog posting.

"Apple buying into Google's suite of applications–not any time soon. In fact, most of them need the magic touch of Steve Jobs, who probably finds them aesthetically lame and user unfriendly, to make them more usuable by mere mortals."